The Continental Army was exhausted, the fledgling nation impoverished. " we are at the end of our tether now or never our deliverance must come " Washington wrote. The British Army was advancing through the southern colonies, having conquered Georgia and South Carolina. ... In 1757, he took leave from his army post to travel to Europe with a Prussian military officer, debating battle tactics at some German courts. ... Like Washington, he led assaults at the front of his army, having horses shot from underneath him during battle. ... To Cornwallis, his family was his regiment, and his army. ...

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The House of Burgess and Continental Congress representative was instrumental in American history, influencing the colonial grievances with Britain, inciting colonial British disgust, and most certainly his contributions to the newly formed American government. ... He was an extremely powerful militia general during the revolutionary war, contributing in many ways to the independence effort. ... Through his military expertise, he developed a standing army of minutemen, proverbially starting from scratch, and rose up against the Crown. ... He was first off second in command of the Continent...

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The Second Amendment states: "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Most gun control activists focus in isolation on the beginning of the amendment where the founders wrote that a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. ...

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